Investigation of the attitude of Firat University Faculty of Sports Sciences physical education teachers’ attitudes to folk dance courses

Kubilay Şenbakar

African Educational Research Journal
Published: January 27 2021
Volume 9, Issue 1
Pages 106-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.91.20.229

Abstract

This research was conducted to determine the direction, violence and opinions of female and male candidates studying in the field of Physical Education Teaching at Fırat University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, towards folk dance lessons. The universe of this research consists of the students of the Physical Education Department of the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Fırat University. A total of 150 students, female (n = 45) and male (n = 105), consisting of 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year students who have taken courses in the Department of Physical Education participated in the sampling. In order to determine the attitudes of the Physical Education teacher candidates towards the folk dance courses, the scale, which was developed by Turan (2015) and whose validity and reliability studies were repeated, was used in the study. General Scanning Model was used in the study. In the analysis of the scores given to the scale, the SPSS 22 package program was used to analyze the data obtained in the study. Significance was evaluated as P < 0.05. As a result; In the findings of the research and discussion results, Physical Education Teacher Candidates' attitudes towards folk dances in cognitive, affective and psychomotor areas was found to be positive, but not significant, regardless of gender, age and classes of study. In line with these results, it is necessary to carry out more comprehensive studies with larger samples across the country in support of this study conducted in order to create a wider literature on folk dances.

Keywords: Attitude, physical education teacher, folk dance.

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